Advisory for the week of November 2

10/30/2009

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If there's just one thing in this entire post you have time to pay attention to, let it be this:  visit The League   and find out about service learning projects, specifically The Drive to collect canned foods throughout November. 

Monday:Student-centered issues: Obesity: CATCH curriculum activity breaks

Tuesday and Wednesday: Character Education: check out the Learning to Give service project toolkit. On our campus network share drive and on The League (AISD's partner in service learning website) is a canned food drive toolkit

Thursday: Academics: play "password" (attached) using science vocabulary

Friday: free choice: show pictures from Halloween. Everyone always has Halloween pictures!! 

Please take a moment to post your favorite lesson plans, activities resources, videos, websites, podcasts, how-to's, experience, and total freakouts on the forum page of this site. We have found some pages won't load from desktops so it's better to use your laptops. 

Website for the week: The League: dozens of service learning projects 

Interesting video for the week: a Discovery Streaming video called  “Rant” which follows two live ants on a series of misadventures; one ant is a Mexican immigrant and the other is a native Anglo. The video is an intersting take on tolerance and stereotypes. See your campus email for the username and password. URLs, Usernames, and Passwords are also available through the BMS Library on Ms Shelby’s helpful takehome card.

Tip of the week: if you need tech help please email me or Sally Lesley and we will come to your room and help you do stuff you're not sure about. For Real.
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Ideas for the week of October 26

10/22/2009

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 Mondays: Teen issues. GREAT VIDEOS and resources   If you haven't created an iTunes account on your laptop and you need help, let me know. If you already have an iTunes account, make sure you check out the George Lucas Educational Foundation videos. They are FREE, there are tons, and they are high quality. They directly address issues related to character education. And speaking of the George Lucas Educational Foundation, pease see their website. It's FANTASTIC because it has tons of interesting, helpful, useful videos, lesson plans, and articles. http://www.edutopia.org/ 

Tuesday and Wednesday: character education: Schoolwide Expectations Posters   If you have not yet begun or completed the schoolwide expectations posters that Ms Ross has requested, please complete those in Advisory this week.

More character education: Canned food drive Thanksgiving will be upon us right away. Advisory is THE place to address a can food drive as part of a service learning project. Ideas: make decorated collection boxes to place throughout the school; make posters to inform and motivate the students; check out a video from the library and have the students write the script and act in and direct a short movie about poverty, hunger, need, or homelessness or just about Thanksgiving!  More to come, as I do not yet know who normally runs the canned food drive, and need to coordinate with them.

Character ed in content classes: See  "Using Character Ed in the classroom" to combine content with character .

Thursdays: Academics Use one of the games in your binder (sparkle, chain reaction) to have fun with science vocabulary; allow students to catch up with homework they may have missed (progress reports are going out and I know my kids missed a few assignments they need to make up)  

Fridays: free choice introduce the possibilities of the computer lab as options!! See your binder for some ideas. If you need help with any of the computer issues let me know!!!!!
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